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Brazil's Truth-Teller Mendonca Filho's Double Cannes Win
- Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho won best director and best actor Wagner Moura won best actor for their thriller The Secret Agent at Cannes on Saturday.
- The film, set in Recife in 1977 during a military dictatorship euphemized as a period of great mischief, follows an academic targeted by hitmen hired by a corrupt minister.
- Mendonca Filho, a former journalist known for addressing corruption, previously won second prize in 2019 for Bacurau, a dystopian drama about foreigners hunting locals for sport.
- He noted that the film’s storyline, created several years ago, appears eerily relevant today as far-right groups in the United States increasingly target universities for their instruction of science and factual information.
- The awards highlight Mendonca Filho's ongoing critique of political corruption and Brazil's self-imposed amnesia normalized by the 1979 amnesty during its return to civilian rule.
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